Street Food

Tim Walker: The Grilled Cheese King

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Glendale, Tim Walker stands outside the Grilled Cheese Truck, describing its signature sandwich to a prospective customer the way a proud paren ... More >>

4th Annual L.A. Street Food Fest Coming in June

Six days post-Tacolandia is, maybe, more than enough rest to prep for the return of the largest gathering of street food purveyors in the Southland on Saturday, June 29. Returning to the Rose Bowl, this year's fest has been pushed a month up, meant to avoid the sweltering heat of July as experienced ... More >>

Jon Favreau to Start His Own Food Truck

From the Department of Verisimilitude, or maybe the Ministry of Silly Hats, comes news from Variety that Jon Favreau (Cowboys & Aliens, Iron Man, Swingers) is starting his own food truck. Or at least he'll play a guy starting his own food truck, which is close enough, right? Favreau will write, dire ... More >>

VICE's New Food Web Series: Truckers In The Wild

Back in the early 2000's, I pitched VICE magazine's then-editor some food content. He basically scoffed at me. "Food?" he said, "That's just not the demographic we're going for." So I've watched with great interest as VICE has produced more and more food content over the last few years. Obviously fo ... More >>

Top 3 Weekend Events: Food Truck Haven, Superba Snack Bar Cooking Demo DRINKfest

Food Truck Haven A fleet of food trucks are lining up at Angel City Brewery in Little Tokyo. Calling it a modern-day picnic, the brewery has invited a range: White Rabbit Filipino Truck, Belly BombZ KBBQ Wings, George's Greek Truck, Surfer's Taco Truck, Crepes Bonaparte, Gobbles & Oinks Truck, Grill ... More >>

Kogi Truck: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Evan Funke Launches a Porchetta Truck: A Mobile Ode to Pork

There are few dishes so good that they deserve a whole food truck devoted specifically to them. But then again, there are some that deserve not only their own truck, but whole restaurants, even maybe museums. This is true of porchetta, the Italian ode to pork that Italy's Ministry of Agricultural, F ... More >>

TLT Food Brings O.C.'s Lime Truck to Westwood

What do you get when an O.C. food truck heads northward with a permanent brick-and-mortar spot in mind? That would be the newly opened TLT Food in Westwood Village, whose acronym stands for "The Lime Truck," the Great Food Truck Race-winning mobile eatery which has been one of Orange County's most p ... More >>

Books: Running a Food Truck for Dummies, A $20 Read Before You Pay $40k For That Used Truck

So you have this really great idea, fried chicken that comes in the shape of a cupcake or something like that, and a food truck is your dream vehicle to stardom. You're in luck: Running a Food Truck for Dummies is here. No matter that we seem to be reading about as many food trucks shutting their sl ... More >>

Cookbook Review: The Truck Food Cookbook An Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

John T. Edge is not the young, Hipstamatic-driven author we expected would write The Truck Food Cookbook, more so as there are already several food truck-related cookbooks out there. But short of perhaps Jane and Michael Stern, Edge is exactly the sort of old school journalist we'd hoped would explo ... More >>

L.A. Vendy Awards Roll Into Town This Weekend

The second annual L.A. Vendy Awards, an event and fundraiser that's been called the "Street Food Oscars," is coming to Pan Pacific Park this weekend, on June 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eight finalists, which include local vendors such as the India Jones Chow Truck, Tacos El Gallito, Buttermilk Tr ... More >>

Art Walk Los Angeles' Nasty War: Oops, Food Truck Ban Is Illegal

The Original Food Trucks

Loncheras are riding the food truck tidal wave

L.A. Food Truck Driver Dies in Crash With Mercedes Near Pico-Union

Update: The dead driver has been identified as 55-year-old L.A. resident Elba Escobar. More at the bottom. Originally posted March 20 at 6:10 p.m. A horrific crash between a food truck and a Mercedes in the Pico-Union area of central Los Angeles has left one dead and two seriously injured, says Se ... More >>

Santa Monica to Ban Late-Night Food Trucks on Main; City Council Apparently Unfamiliar With Drunk Munchies

curvewire.comSay your goodbyes, kiddos.​Wack! The seven City Councilmembers occupying that gorgeous beachside Hall over in Santa Monica seem to have little idea what keeps the party people going a few blocks south. They've tentatively approved an ordinance that will ban food trucks on Main St ... More >>

Granada Hills Cracks Down on Food Trucks

Guzzle & NoshHungry Angelenos line up at a food truck.​The newest front in the Food Truck Wars is Granada Hills, where 10 inspectors from the L.A. County Department of Public Health showed up on Wednesday night to raid "Food Truck Night" along Chatsworth Avenue between Zelzah and White Oak. ... More >>

NoHo Food Truck Cook-Off Invites Amateur Taco Slingers

Guzzle and Nosh​"Nothing ever happens in North Hollywood"? The NoHo Taco Cook-Off is the third in a series of events -- the NoHo Food Truck festivals in March and June being the first and second -- that brings together local music, dance performances and food in an effort to show off this part ... More >>

Westside Food Truck Central Lot Closes -- Temporarily?

Guzzle & NoshWestside Food Truck Central at the corner of Washington & Overland.​A window opens, a door closes. As part of a broader crackdown on the constantly expanding fleet of nouveau food trucks, city inspectors are taking a hard look at food truck lots. Westside Food Truck Central (@Food ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Farmageddon, Food Trucks, Beer, Oysters

Farmageddon - Movie Trailer from Kristin Canty on Vimeo. Farmageddon This documentary featuring farmer/activist Joel Salatin focuses the escalating fight for food rights in America and the suspect motives (can anyone say corporate-driven farm subsidies?) of the government's food safety "experts." ... More >>

L.A. Street Food Fest: Trucks, Beer, Breathing Room No Waiting

​The complaint is nothing new. You spend your hard-earned money on a food truck festival and end up stuck in lines windier than the yellow brick road, slow-cooking in the sun, only to head home only after just a bite or two. But that won't be the case at the 2nd Annual L.A. Street Food Fest Su ... More >>

Roadstoves: A Call for Civility Among Food Trucks

Benjamin SimpsonJosh Hiller takes food trucks seriously.​ The fryers, grills and steam tables are turned off, but the insides of the food trucks stored in the parking lot of Josh Hiller's business are greenhouse-hot. Most have, on the ceiling, a small blue window that tilts open, but they clea ... More >>

Misa Chien and Jenn Green: Hot Asian Sandwich

Marvin Gapultos: Adobo Road

Misa Chien and Jenn Green: Hot Asian Sandwich

Kevin ScanlonMisa Chien and Jenn Green ​ How much of the Nom Nom Truck's success is attributable to its owners being two gorgeous, brainy young Asian girls inside a food truck, and how much to the food? "I don't want there to be a misconception that the truck is about two girls on a truck," co ... More >>

Food Truck Derby: Free Food and Drink, Though No Drag Racing

​ Food trucks have been around long enough now that food truck festivals seem almost as common as the trucks themselves. Nothing particularly wrong with that, so why not make this the summer of food truck festivals. There's no time like the present to kick it off, since this Saturday the fabul ... More >>

Last Night: Top 10 Quotes from KCRW's Global Street Food Panel

Guzzle & NoshCrowds wait in fron of the Nom Nom Truck (left); a taco from Mariscos Jalisco (right).​If you've been to some of the apallingly oversold food truck festivals of the past couple years, the sight of lines snaking around food trucks outside the Broad Stage on Sunday morning should ha ... More >>

Kogi Meets Googie

Graphic design helps food trucks get attention

Look At This Fuckin' Hipster Food Truck: Your Daily Dose of Food Truck Rage

Screen grab from Look At This Fuckin' Hipster Food Truck​If we were an old-school lonchera, we'd be pissed too. We might look at the wave of nouveau food trucks and think: "All it took was a shiny paint job, a punny name and a Twitter feed?!" Finally, someone has harnessed all that anger int ... More >>

CSI: NY Blows Up a Food Truck

Please enjoy our terrible Photoshop work.​ The food truck business is booming... literally. (Yes, we sometimes borrow our ledes from TV voiceovers.) In "Food For Thought," tonight's episode of CSI: NY, "the team enters the competitive world of gourmet food trucks when one explodes at a SoHo f ... More >>

Masa Revolution: Patricia Nazario's Food Truck Documentary Project

The revolution may or may not be televised, but it will certainly be filmed, especially when veteran broadcast journalist Patricia Nazario is running the show, and when the revolution in question is the new wave of food trucks. Masa Revolution is the name of both a website and an in-progress bilin ... More >>

More Fun in the Valley: The SGV Food Truck Festival

sgvfoodtruckfest.comJanuary SGV food truck fest​ If you're tired of trekking west for food truck convoys -- or dealing with the parking issues on Abbot Kinney -- this Friday's monthly SGV Food Truck Festival is your chance to eat standing up considerably east of the 405. The SGV Food Truck Fe ... More >>

Evan Kleiman Talks Global Street Food - Tickets on Sale Tomorrow

​Street food existed long before the myriad of Twittering food trucks took over Los Angeles. Evan Kleiman (chef/owner of Angeli Caffe, host of KCRW's Good Food) reminds us of that on May 1st, when she moderates the Global Street Food event featuring OC Weekly Managing Editor and food contribut ... More >>

Breadbar Brings Food Trucks Into the Kitchen with Hatchi Truck Stop

Guzzle & NoshBreadbar Century City (left) and the Grill 'Em All truck (right).​ Is Breadbar bringing its Guest Chef Series to the streets or bringing street food to its guests? Either way, the Century City restaurant will morph its once popular Hatchi Guest Chef Series into the Hatchi Truck St ... More >>

Groupon for Food Trucks: FoodTruckDeals.com Launches

Courtesy of FoodTruckDeals.com.​If you still prefer your street food on the street instead of in a restaurant at $8 per plate, FoodTruckDeals.com may be the site for you. Launched only yesterday, the site aims to be the Groupon for the food truck set. It seems like a limited target market, but ... More >>

Stephen Box, City Council District 4 Challenger, Has Best Balls in L.A. Tweeting on His Behalf

We love you, Stephen, tweet tweet.​Stephen Box, candidate for City Council District 4, has food trucks tweeting up a storm for him. @greatballsot (Great Balls On Tires) tweets: "You've voted us as best BALLS in L.A., now vote for BOX because he supports Food Trucks in District 4. Get out an ... More >>

Last Night: Food Truck Waterloo in Santa Anita

There's no surer bet these days than rounding out an event -- a street fair, a concert, a community festival -- with a few nouveau food trucks. Even the mediocre trucks, and there are plenty, are bound to be better than the grim array of vendors who usually populate these affairs. ($10 for a burnt ... More >>

Santa Anita Food Truck Festival: Your Cross-Addiction Daily Double

Flickr/R. E. ~Border Grill Truck's ceviche​ If you like the ponies and you've long been looking for a way to combine your secret gambling habit with your love for food trucks, you've hit the proverbial jackpot. The Santa Anita Food Truck Festival is tomorrow, Saturday, January 29th, from 11:3 ... More >>

Food Truck Justice: Miguel Morales and Dainler Baquevano Charged with Extorting "Rent" from Vendors

by ricardodiaz11 via flickr​Recently, it seems that food trucks have been getting the shaft. First, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved restaurant-style letter grades, meaning pesky health inspections for the mobile eateries. And earlier this month, a band of Abbot Kinney store ... More >>

Venice's First Friday: 7 Food Trucks in Search of a Policy

S. WilsonVenice First Friday​ As we reported here, the most recent First Friday event along Venice's Abbot Kinney Boulevard was complicated by the ongoing lack of consensus (that's putting it mildly) between the food trucks, the Venice merchants, the Abbot Kinney Merchants Committee (AKMC), an ... More >>

Venice 'First Fridays' Food Trucks Scared Off -- Again -- By Abbot Kinney Merchants

The Brig parking lot, full of food trucks, was the only thing crowded about this month's First Friday in Venice​Only seven food trucks were brave enough to park along Abbot Kinney Boulevard last Friday evening. They had been completely in the dark -- right up to the 6 p.m. start time of the m ... More >>

Q & A With Jason Travi, Part 2: Flipflops at Spago, Food Trucks Why Every Chef Should Gas Up With Fryer Oil

A. ScattergoodJason Travi at Firefly​ When we left off talking to Jason Travi, the chef was discussing the relative merits of being a third generation chef, why he didn't start cooking until the comparatively ancient age of 15, and how his father didn't want him working in the family business. ... More >>

Lords of Dogtown: The Continuing Saga of Food Trucks Venice's First Fridays

Guzzle & Nosh​ Will there be food trucks at tonight's first 2011 installment of First Fridays? Maybe, maybe not, but contrary to various reports (including on this blog), no happy agreement has been reached between the Abbot Kinney Merchants Committee (AKMC) and the SoCal Mobile Food Vendors ... More >>

Woodland Hills Rotary Arts & Crafts Fair: Food Trucks, Photography & More

Flickr/Rios-EnriquezLake Street Creamery, one of the food trucks at this weekend's Rotary Arts & Crafts Fair​ L.A. is chalk full of holiday events this weekend -- from downtown's Artisanal L.A. to Bond Appetit: James Bond, Foodie event -- and now the Valley is getting into the mix. On Saturda ... More >>

Uh-Oh: L.A. Food Trucks Are Going To Get Some Etiquette Rules From The Pencil Pushers

​Food trucks used to be the domain of Mexican mom-and-pop operations that sold palm-sized tacos and candy colored sodas. Now they're reality TV fodder, mobile paeans to the urban hipster and .. the focus of intense regulatory scrutiny. In other words bureaucrats have discovered them and want ... More >>

L.A. County To Consider Health Grades For Food Trucks

​The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will take up the issue of whether or not to give restaurant-style health grades to food trucks. The board was originally scheduled to consider the matter Tuesday but the proposal was postponed until next week. County public health director Jonathan ... More >>

Food Trucks May Be Required To Make Restroom Available To Employees

​There's one aspect of Wednesday's City Council hearing on regulating food trucks that we neglected to mention -- and it's a significant oversight: The suggestion that food trucks may be required, as per county health regulations, to provide access to an up-to-code bathroom for employees, just ... More >>

Great Food Truck Race: 5 Questions for 5 Trucks

Contestants in The Great Food Truck Race​While the real food truck wars rage in the city council and on the streets of Los Angeles, the Food Network hopes to cash in on the mobile eatery trend with The Great Food Truck Race, a lighthearted reality show that debuts this Sunday, August 15th. I ... More >>

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Meals On Wheels: A Brief L.A. Food Truck Update

Buttermilk Truck launches the evening of November 11th at The Brig in Venice (via LAist). The Grilled Cheese Truck, which launched last week, just posted this week's schedule on their website. Today, Brentwood. Tomorrow, on KTLA. Flying Pig Truck, which hit the streets in mid-October, is on Cahuen ... More >>